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CHAMS supervisor delivering a safety briefing to crew on the quayside

Safety & Quality

Nobody gets hurt.Nothing gets reworked.

Offshore work punishes shortcuts. Our HSE and QA/QC systems exist so that neither the crew nor the schedule ever pays for one.

0
Lost-time injuriesCalendar year 2025
100%
Scopes with an approved ITPBefore work commences
2,400+
Toolbox talks deliveredEvery shift, every scope
< 24h
Incident review turnaroundFinding to corrective action

Figures verified at each monthly HSE review

01 — The Commitment

Anyone can stop
the job.

Any CHAMS crew member can stop a job — apprentice or supervisor — without needing to justify it first. Nobody has ever been penalised for using that authority, and that is precisely the point.

We hire for attitude to safety as much as for trade skill. New crew are inducted before they touch a tool, mentored by an experienced hand, and assessed on safe working alongside technical output.

“Everyone goes home the way they arrived. That is the only measure of a successful shift that matters.”

CHAMS Offshore — HSE Policy
CHAMS technician completing a PPE check before entering the work area

0

Lost-time injuries
across 2025

02 — HSE Management System

Four controls that run
on every single scope.

Not aspirations on a poster. These are the gates a job passes through before, during and after mobilisation — the same four whether it is one technician or a forty-strong crew.

  • 01

    Risk assessed before mobilisation

    Every scope gets a written risk assessment and method statement before a single technician boards. High-risk activities carry a permit-to-work signed by the client's authority.

    Permit to work
  • 02

    PPE and competency, verified

    PPE is checked at the gate, not assumed. Certifications, safety courses and work passes are tracked centrally and blocked at mobilisation if anything has lapsed.

    Central register
  • 03

    Toolbox talk every shift

    Each shift opens with a talk covering the day's hazards, the simultaneous operations around us, and the stop-work authority every crew member holds without question.

    Daily briefing
  • 04

    Measured, reported, reviewed

    Near-misses, observations and incidents are logged and reviewed monthly. Leading indicators drive the programme — we do not wait for a lagging one to tell us something is wrong.

    Monthly review
03 — Quality Assurance

Six gates between
drawing and handover.

Quality is not an inspection at the end. It is a sequence of checkpoints, each one signed before the next begins — and each one leaving a document behind.

Handover dossier

Every gate above contributes a signed artefact. Together they form the pack your surveyor needs to sign without a second visit.

  1. 01
    GATE 01

    Inspection & Test Plan

    An ITP is issued for every scope, agreed with the client, and identifies each hold, witness and review point before work starts.

    EvidenceClient-approved ITP

    First gate.
  2. 02
    GATE 02

    Material verification

    Mill certificates, consumable certificates and heat numbers are checked against the specification and recorded before fit-up.

    EvidenceMaterial traceability log

  3. 03
    GATE 03

    In-process inspection

    Fit-up, root, and cap inspections on welded work. Dimensional control against drawing tolerances. Nothing gets covered before it is signed.

    EvidenceSigned inspection record

  4. 04
    GATE 04

    Non-destructive testing

    Visual, MPI, DPI, UT and RT as the specification demands, carried out by certified technicians with reports issued against each joint.

    EvidenceNDT report per joint

  5. 05
    GATE 05

    Function & pressure testing

    Hydrostatic, pneumatic, loop-check and function testing witnessed by the client and, where required, the attending class surveyor.

    EvidenceWitnessed test certificate

  6. 06
    GATE 06

    Handover documentation

    A complete pack — ITP sign-offs, NDT reports, test certificates, as-built marks and material traceability — issued at completion, not chased afterwards.

    EvidenceFull handover dossier

04 — Standards & Codes

Built to codes
your surveyor knows.

International standards, applied by discipline. Every procedure we issue references the clause it answers to.

Management systems

  • ISO 45001:2018Occupational Health & Safety Management
  • BizSAFE STARWorkplace Safety & Health Council, Singapore
  • WSH ActSingapore Workplace Safety & Health Act

Welding & fabrication

  • AWS D1.1Structural Welding Code, Steel
  • ASME Sec. IXWelding & Brazing Qualification

Piping & pressure

  • ASME B31.3Process Piping

Electrical & hazardous area

  • IEC 60079Explosive Atmospheres (Ex)
  • IEC 60092Electrical Installations in Ships
05 — Operational Excellence

We watch the signals
that come before an incident.

Leading indicators

Measured continuously, because they predict. These are what our monthly review actually spends its time on.

  • Safety observations raised by crew
  • Near-misses reported and closed
  • Toolbox talk attendance and topics
  • Certification expiry ahead of mobilisation
  • Permit-to-work compliance spot checks

Lagging indicators

Reported and audited, but never the first place we look. By the time these move, something has already gone wrong.

0
Lost-time injuries
0
Reportable incidents
0
Enforcement notices
100%
Audits closed on time

Every finding changes something.

  1. 01

    Investigate

    Root cause, not blame

    Every incident and significant near-miss is investigated to root cause — and the finding is written down.

  2. 02

    Update

    Procedures change

    Findings feed directly into method statements, toolbox topics and induction content within the same month.

  3. 03

    Close the loop

    Client feedback lands

    Post-project reviews are logged and actioned. Repeat findings across projects trigger a process change.

06 — Accreditation

Independently
assessed.

Our systems are audited by third parties, not self-declared. Certificates are available for your vendor registration or tender submission.

  • ISO 45001:2018

    Occupational Health & Safety Management

  • BizSAFE STAR

    Workplace Safety & Health Council, Singapore

07 — Client Commitment

What you get
on every contract.

  • Documentation on handover day

    Test packs, NDT reports and as-built marks are issued at completion — never chased weeks afterwards.

  • Full visibility while we work

    Daily progress reporting, open hold points and immediate notification of anything that puts a date at risk.

  • Stop-work authority respected

    If our crew stops a job on safety grounds, you get the reason in writing and a plan to resume — not an argument.

  • One accountable supervisor

    A named CHAMS supervisor owns the scope end to end, including the parts that turn out harder than the drawing suggested.

Assurance

Need our HSE pack
for prequalification?

We can supply our safety statistics, ISO certificates, sample ITPs and method statements for your vendor registration or tender submission.

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